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Background

Elimination Chamber featured professional wrestling matches that involve different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds, plots, and storylines that will be played out on World Wrestling Entertainment's (WWE) primary television programs. Wrestlers will portray villains or heroes as they follow a series of events that build tension, and culminate in a wrestling match or series of matches.

At the Royal Rumble, Alberto Del Rio won the eponymous match to earn himself a World Championship match at WrestlMania. He subsequently announced he would wrestle for the World Heavyweight Championship, held at the time by Edge. Edge at the time was embroiled in a feud with Dolph Ziggler and his on-screen ex-wife Vickie Guerrero, who was also scripted to be dating Ziggler. On the final episode of SmackDown before the PPV, Acting General Manager Guerrero stripped Edge of the championship and awarded it to Ziggler, only for Teddy Long, the real GM, to give Edge a return match which he won. After this, Long fired Ziggler leaving one of the six places in the Elimination Chamber match empty. The other participants are Kane, Rey Mysterio, Wade Barrett and Drew McIntyre.